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222 The Natural Eiftory of Jamaica. 
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XIX. Alcea populi folio incano integro. Cat. p. 98. Tab.'39. Fig. 3, Alcea 
Famaicenfis, abutili facie, floribus exiguis flavis, folio vix crenato, prona parte 
mnolli ce» tenuiffima lanugine canefcente. Pluken. Alm.p.17. Phyt. Tab. 254. Fig.5. 
This has a brown, wooddy, branched Root, a round, wooddy, {mooth, 
brown Stalk, three Foot high, from whence come feveral Branches, having 
towards their ends Leaves and Flowers ex corum ala. The Leaves ftand on 
one quarter of an Inch long Foot-Stalks, are extremely white, and foft 
with Down, an Inch and an half long, and half as broad at the round Bafe, 
where broadeft, and whence they diminifh till they end ina point. The 
Flowers ftand on halt an Inch long Foot-Stalks, are pentapetalous, and of 
an Orange colour. After each of thefe follows a Seed-Veflel, made up of 
five parts, like to thefe of #raxinella, in each of which are contained Seeds, 
very like the Seeds or Acini of Grapes, which leap out of the open’d Capfule 
by the Suns heat. 
fc grows every where in the Savanna's. 
There is a variety of this having the Leaf longer, broader at Bafe, not fo 
woolly onthe upperfide, and fewer Flowers, growing indifferently with the 
precedent. 
XX. Alcea populi folio villofo, leviter ferrato. Cat. p. 98. Fab.r 39. Fig. 4. 
This has many green round Stems, rifing two or three Foot high, having fe- 
veral Twigs, on theends of which-are two or three Leaves, ftanding on‘near 
an Inch long green-Foot-Stalks. They are near an Inch long, and half as broad 
at round Bafe, where broadeft, of agreen colour, foft, hoary, finuated, and 
{nipt about the edges, ending in a point, having feveral Veins running 
through it from the end of the Foot-Stalk, and fome from the middle Rib. 
Ex alis foliorum comes the Flower, ftanding on three quarters of an Inch 
Jong Foot-Stalk. It ftands in a pentaphyllous Ca/yx, is pentapetalous, 
Orange colour’d, and after it follows a fix cornered Seed-Veffel, firft green, 
and then brown, or rather fo many Follicles lying by one another, and in- 
clofing the Seed like the Alutila, 
It grows. in feveral places of this Ifland. 
MXI. Aleca maxima, malve rofee folio, fructn pentagono, recurvo, efculento, 
graciliore c longiore. Cat. p. ¢8. Tab. 133- Fig. 2. Alcea Indica Quigombo & 
Ochroa ditta, filiguis prelongis planis quinquefariam divifis, ex infula Barbadenft. 
Pluken. Alm. p. 16. An Ketmia Atgyptiaca, vitis folio, parvo flore. Tournef. 
El. p.832 Injt. p. 1002 vel An Ketmia Indica vitis folio, fruétu corniculato. 
£j.ib. Bammia Calceolar. Mafi p. 520 > Oera. | ales 
This has a round green Stem, which +ifes ftraight up to ten or twelve 
Foot high, being here and there divided into Branches, which are befet with- 
outany order, at about an Inches diftance, with Leaves {landing on feven 
Inches long Foot-Stalks, each whereof is divided by deep: Lacinie into five 
Se&tions or Divifions, being fix Inches long from the Foot-Stalks end, to 
the end of that divifion oppofite to it, or inthe middle, whichis the largeft, 
and four broad at Bafe, from Ear to Ear. They are fomewhat rough, of a dark. 
green colour, befer with fhort inoffenfive Prickles, having five middle: Ribs, - 
taking beginning from the Foot-Stalks end, and running through: every of 
the five divifions, being proportionably large to their bignefs, and the whole’ 
Leaf refembling thofe of our Holyokes. “The Leaves when: they: fall‘ off 
leave a white knob on the Stalk. x alis- foliorum come the Flowers; ftand-’ 
ing on an cighth part of an Inch long Foot-Stalk, having nine Inches and am 
half long, narrow, hoary Capfular Leaves, and one large green one, ftand- 
ing about a round, fmooth, green knob. The Petalaare five, large as ce 
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